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A community blog devoted to refining the art of New Rationality

New Rationality 42 karma levc Jul 17, 2026 If you look at the social landscape of San Francisco, you will notice a lot fewer rationalists now compared to a few years ago [1] . The reason for that is that rationalists — at least in my circles — have bullied each other out of existence. A lot of people who went to the rationalist camps started identifying as post-rationalists, also known as postrats. The same people started trolling the rationalists for being rationalist, leading to more and more people becoming postrats [2] . A similar process occurred in the Effective Altruism community, to th

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